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Timeline of the Presbyterian denominations in Australia over the past century, and the movement of congregations from one to another. In Australia, Presbyterianism is the fourth largest denomination of Christianity, with nearly 600,000 Australians claiming to be Presbyterian in the 2006 Commonwealth Census. Presbyterian churches were founded in ...
The family tree of American Presbyterianism, 1706–1983. Courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA, and updated.. Presbyterianism has had a presence in the United States since colonial times and has exerted an important influence over broader American religion and culture.
A History of the Southern Presbyterian Church. New York: The Christian Literature Company. Longfield, Bradley J. (2013), Presbyterians and American Culture: A History, Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster Johh Knox Press, ISBN 9780664231569
Presbyterian Church in the USA (1916), The Constitution of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication and Sabbath-School Work. Rogers, Jack B. (Summer 1981). "Biblical Authority and Confessional Change". Journal of Presbyterian History. 59 (2). Presbyterian Historical Society: 131 ...
Presbyterians trace their history to the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century. The Presbyterian heritage, and much of its theology, began with the French theologian and lawyer John Calvin (1509–64), whose writings solidified much of the Reformed thinking that came before him in the form of the sermons and writings of Huldrych Zwingli.
The Great Awakening, which had spent its force in New England by the mid-1740s, split the Congregational and Presbyterian churches into supporters—called "New Lights" and "New Side"—and opponents—the "Old Lights" and "Old Side." Many New England New Lights became Separate Baptists.
English Presbyterianism itself dates to the tumultuous year 1641, which saw the execution of the Earl of Stafford, the Imprisonment of the Twelve Bishops, the publication of the Grand Remonstrance, and most importantly the beginning of a great debate within and without Parliament on the subject of church government.
The Presbyterian Church (USA) is the largest Presbyterian denomination in the United States, [7] reporting 1,094,733 active members and 17,978 ordained ministers (including retired ones) [8] in 8,572 congregations at the end of 2023. [1] This number does not include members who are baptized but not confirmed, or the inactive members also ...